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Dainty Common

Dainty has 6 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

something considered choice to eat

2

A delicacy (in taste).

Adjective
1

delicately beautiful

"a dainty teacup"

"an exquisite cameo"

2

especially pleasing to the taste

"a dainty dish to set before a kind"

3

excessively fastidious and easily disgusted

"too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"

"so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

4

Excellent; valuable, fine.

Example Sentences
"a dainty teacup" adjective
"an exquisite cameo" adjective
"a dainty dish to set before a kind" adjective
"too nice about his food to take to camp cooking" adjective
"so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow" adjective
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
nutriment
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
choice morsel savory sweet ambrosia gelatin marrow
Rhyming Words
anty genty ranty cunty hunty santy tanty benty punty wanty tinty aunty jonty runty minty ginty linty ponty banty canty
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